Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Baker

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

Dan Marino

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Dan Marino

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

Alexi Lalas

Red Bull is committed to providing not only quality domestic soccer, but also quality international soccer. You can't get much better than Barcelona. Our entire organization is excited about the opportunity to play one of the premier teams in the world.

Alexi Lalas

There's no honor in soccer

Andrew Gross

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

Alton Brown

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

Andres Iniesta

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

Andres Iniesta

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Chuck Klosterman

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

Chuck Klosterman

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.

Anson Dorrance

If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

Dave Checketts

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Evangeline Lilly

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Mike Royko

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

Mitch Hedberg

Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a back flip, much less several simultaneously with two other guys.

Martin Jol

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

Hakeem Olajuwon

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Haile Gebrselassie

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

Graham Roberts

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.

Graham Taylor

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Graham Taylor

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

Graham Taylor

People always remember the second half.

Graham Taylor

Is he ever going to learn?

Graham Taylor

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Jay Leno

ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

Javier Clemente

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

Jud Tylor

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

Paul Gascoigne

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

Paul Gascoigne

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

Patrick Rothfuss

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

Parminder Nagra

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.